Language Expressiveness Enhancements

• New Conditional Elements: from(hibernate ready), collect, accumulate and forall

• New Field Constraint operators: not matches, not contains, in, not in, memberOf, not memberOf

• New Implicit Self Reference field: this

• Full support to Conditional Elements nesting, for First Order Logic completeness.

• Support to multi-restrictions and constraint connectives && and ||

• Parser improvements to remove previous language limitations, like character escaping and keyword conflicts

• Support to pluggable dialects and built-in support to Java and MVEL

• Complete rewrite of DSL engine, allowing for full l10n

• Fact attributes auto-vivification for return value restrictions and inline-eval constraints

• Support to nested accessors, property navigation and simplified collection, arrays and maps syntax

• Improved support to XML rules

• Experimental Clips parser support

Core Engine Enhancements

• Native support to primitive types, avoiding constant autoboxing

• Transparent optional Shadow Facts

• Rete Network performance improvements for complex rules

• Rule-Flow

• Stateful and Stateless working memories (rule engine sessions)

• Support for Asynchronous Working Memory actions

• Rules Engine Agent for hot deployment and BRMS integration

• Pluggeable dialects and and full support to MVEL scripting language

• Dynamic salience for rules conflict resolution

• Parameterized Queries

• halt command

• Sequential execution mode, faster performance and uses less memory

• Pluggable global variable resolver

IDE Enhancements

• Support for rule break-points on debugging

• WYSIWYG support to rule-flows

• New guided editor for rules authoring

• Upgrade to support all new engine features

Business Rules Management System - BRMS

• User friendly web interface with nice WEB 2.0 ajax features (GWT)

• Package configuration

• Rule Authoring easy to edit rules both with guided editor ( drop-down menus ) and text editor

• Package compilation and deployment

• Easy deployment with Rule Agent

• Easy to organize with categories and search assets

• Versioning enabled, you can easily replace yours assets with previously saved

• JCR compliant rule assets repository

Miscellaneous Enhancements

• Slimmed down dependencies and smaller memory footprint